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My concern was that a site which is based or centered around open debate should not be doing so at all. Some sort of comment feedback controlled by users themselves (and not administrators) was probably sufficient to moderate comments. So while it is possible that the registry system will free up such resources on the part of users and limit comment spam, that was never my problem.